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From: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A Sprite Editor?
Keywords: SPRITE EDITOR
Message-ID: <14716@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 28 Sep 90 15:04:44 GMT
References: <8615@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Reply-To: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <8615@helios.TAMU.EDU> aaron@stat.tamu.edu (Aaron Hightower) writes:
>I am currently developing, of all things, a sprite editor.  The reason that I 
>began developing this program is to suit my own needs.  After seeing the
>existing software to edit sprites, I realized the following things:

>At this time, my sprite editor incorporates the following:
>
>(1) An special IFF file for sprites (similar to the 8SVX format for sounds.)
>(2) Support for sprites of varying heights.

Please consider using an IFF ILBM for external storage of your sprite.
That way if your editor was missing a feature that existed in a Paint
package (I dunno, maybe gradient fills, or perspective operations) then
the sprite could be edited in (say) DPaint and then loaded into your
editor to be saved as the sprite (I don't know what you spit out,
if it's source code or if you set the pointer with SetPrefs()).

Note that in 2.0, the pointer preferences are stored as an ILBM.

>   Aaron Hightower.

     Peter
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